I have been quiet on this blog because I have been working a new book about mediation and it has been keeping me busy. But Sheridan nudged me and said I hadn’t posted since October. Wow! I realized October was my birthday month and January is (one of) my re-birthday months. And rebirth has been […]
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I loved reading the article in The Church News about the Helping Babies Breathe humanitarian work the church is doing. LDS Charities is a recognized innovator of the “train the trainer” approach to neonatal resuscitation training. In Indonesia, a portion of that training called Helping Babies Breathe is being introduced for the first time. While
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I wrote this 10 years ago, as I reflected on Devon’s 10th birthday. I added the ICAN link at the end of Devon’s birth story, because recovering from a Cesarean is interesting. There is the purely physical aspect of recovering from major abdominal surgery. Then the emotional aspect really colors the whole experience. Aspects that
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Perhaps it’s wishful thinking on my part, but I feel in my gut that we and our children and grandchildren will build Zion, we will BE Zion. I want to get there as quickly as possible. Maybe you’re as eager as I am? If so, here are some books you might love (if you haven’t read them yet)…
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I wrote down these thoughts when Devon turned 10. Back then, he was still a child. He was growing up so fast, but he was definitely still a child in the way he acted. He is 16 now. Boy, has he grown up. He has his typical teenager moments for sure, but he has turned
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After returning home after our summer trip to UT, I decided that I wanted to do 40 days of the meditation “Ra Ma Da Sa” with the intention of helping my daughter heal from her prebirth wounds. So I did. And it was life-changing.
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My husband sends me articles he knows I will enjoy and I loved getting this link from him today. Pope tells mom it’s OK to breastfeed in church. “Some will cry because they are uncomfortable or because they are hungry,” the Pope said. “If they are hungry, mothers, let them eat, no worries, because here,
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Here are some memories from my journal the year after Devon was born via emergency cesarean for fetal distress. The wound was still so fresh, the fear so apparent. It is interesting to me I knew that he had some challenges, but didn’t really know what to do or think about it. I had talked
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My “baby” was baptized on Saturday by his 16 year old big brother. On Friday I remembered about a post my friend wrote for the blog about the baptism of her daughter and how it was as special as the day she was born. I had not experienced that with my oldest sons baptisms, but
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Ahh, my first born. In such a hurry he came 6 weeks early, weighing in at a whopping 4 pounds 3 ounces. Slow and Steady Wins the Race Devon had some challenges when he was little. Slow to walk, slow to talk, slow to read. We did so much therapy. Physical Therapy Occupational Therapy Speech
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